Print, Sign, Abandon - Round 1
Life, despite the increasingly strange impressions we recieve from the media, is often rather dull. We can change that, for one random household at a time, if only momentarily.
So, a bit of background: I'm an artist of sorts, an agoraphobic disabled veteran, and basically too poor to own any of my own artwork. (Well, first-world poor, of course; I'm warm, dry, fed, and connected.)
I'm also a fan of the surreal. The project at hand is a combination of fine art production and performance art.
Here's what your funding will help accomplish:
Step 1: I'll make three signed and numbered prints of one of my recent works. These will be fairly large, archival quality prints, and will account for the majority of the requested funding.
Step 2: I'll write an anonymous letter donating one of the prints to the collection manager of a randomly chosen museum or gallery in the area.
Step 3a: One of the prints, and the letter, will be wrapped in a plastic bag and abandoned at a randomly chosen residential address in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Step 3b: I'll buy some curry. I can't get it out in the boonies where I live, so I have to drive in to Tulsa.
Step 4: Someone will find it (The art, not the curry), and then they'll have to decide what to do with it. All sorts of things could happen there.
Step 4a: If they pass the print on to whoever the letter is addressed to, eventually I'll be contacted. At that point the gallery will get to do whatever they want with the print.
Step 4b: I will then wrap the second of the three prints in a plastic bag, and abandon it at the original residential address, along with a signed letter of thanks for delivering the first print.
The end result, ideally, will be two signed limited edition prints in circulation. One in the hands of someone who would not normally be an art collector, one in the hands of a gallery or museum, and one in my hands. (Or on my wall, more likely, since I'm not going to carry it around all the time.)
This all probably seems quite mad. And it is. That's the whole point. Give someone a bit of high weirdness and an opportunity to "do the right thing", and reward them for it even if they choose not to.
Note: I'm offering custom wierdness for those of you who find this sort of project interesting.
Further Note: If we manage to over-fund this project properly we'll upgrade it to round two, and abandon more prints, like these...
